#8 Ethics and the Evolution of NLP
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Lucerne
April 28, 2023
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💡 What is going on behind the scene?
ChatGPT may be used to communicate difficult desicions
King = 1, Queen = 2, Man = 3, Woman = 4Discrete, symbolic words (Colyer 2016)
NLP is great. I love NLP.
I understand NLP.
NLP, NLP, NLP.
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___ for lunch.”You shall know a word by the company it keeps!
Firth (1957)
King – Man + Woman = QueenFrance / Paris = Switzerland / Bernbank)💥 embeddings are the cornerstone of modern NLP
«___ becomes a doctor.»
Gender bias of the commonly used language model BERT (Devlin et al. 2019)
🤓 train with gradient descent, a series of small steps taken to minimize an error function
„This sentence contains 32 characters.“
„Dieser Satz enthält 32 Buchstaben.“
Differences in the etymological roots of the terms data and capta make the distinction between constructivist and realist approaches clear. Capta is “taken” actively while data is assumed to be a “given” able to be recorded and observed.
Humanistic inquiry acknowledges the situated, partial, and constitutive character of knowledge production, the recognition that knowledge is constructed, taken, not simply given as a natural representation of pre-existing fact.
Drucker (2011)
Raw data is an oxymoron.
Gitelman (2013)
Gender bias in Google Translate
Gender bias in Google Translate
Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair,
ask how it shifts power.Kalluri (2020)
Don’t be a fool. Be wise, think twice.